[HN Gopher] Gecko Tapes
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       Gecko Tapes
        
       Author : alexandrehtrb
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-07-04 23:43 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (web.stanford.edu)
        
       | 369548684892826 wrote:
       | > It is only recently that scientists have unlocked the secret
       | behind the lizards' perplexing mobility and begun engineering
       | synthetic materials mimicking their abilities.
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       | I wish there was a law saying pages that use relative dates must
       | be timestamped. Anyway, Wayback Machine says it's been around
       | since at least 2014.
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | _> Considering a gecko foot has an area around only 100 mm2_
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       | Is this measurement for some kind of large-sized gecko? Geckos in
       | Hawai'i have significantly smaller feet, maybe 20-40% this
       | proposed area or less.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_dust_day_gecko
        
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